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Edmund Schiddel

Charting Feb 22, 1959Jun 14, 1959 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.96%
week of May 17, 1959
Career Power
71
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
71
June 1958 – June 1959
Peak Five Years
71
June 1954 – June 1959
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of May 17, 1959
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

1 book · 71 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Devil in Bucks County#71670.9

At their peak

1958 in books

Edmund Schiddel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1958 to June 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Boris Pasternak483
  2. 2Vladimir Nabokov441
  3. 3Robert Traver392
  4. 4Leon Uris347
  5. 5Patrick Dennis256
  6. 6Jerome Weidman208
  7. 7John O'Hara196
  8. 8Edna Ferber176
  9. 9Mary Renault154
  10. 10Anya Seton146

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.